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Public officials must take blame for fire deaths

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Parents and guardians at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Kieni West, Nyeri, where 21 pupils died in a fire. [Kibata Kihu, Standard]

It is astonishing that no public resignations or sackings followed the fire accident that killed dozens of students at Hillside Endarasha Academy in Nyeri County.

In a normal country, senior officials in charge of fire safety at the county level should have resigned.

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